Robert Rorabeck Poems

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2241.
Such Wolves And Perfect Gentlemen

And I will sit alongside the deep
Shelter of my apartment,
After that occasion where my parents
Have died,
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2242.
Not Chaucer

This is not Chaucer,
But I’ve had the chance to finish it
Before I die:
So I love you,
...

2243.
Falling In Love With Yesterday's Light

Mother,
I want another cigarette.
I come into your room
When you are not looking,
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2244.
How Her Beauty Betrayed Me

I have this sailboat under my
Left eye- it doesn’t diminish even
When I sail out in it looking for you-
But I used to be beautiful,
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2245.
Plenty Enough For Everyone

I wake up from Saint Louis with news scars on
My lap,
And errors waiting for the page:
I wake up closer to noon than I ever done,
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2246.

The river is full of dreams—
I haven’t seen them, but I
Would not lie about them:
She has the colors of our flag scaled
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2247.
Just Another Lackluster Part Of The Hoodlum's Tapestry

I’ll bend down to clean my car
And when I’ll look up there’ll be:

Glittering tombs
...

2248.
Unanswerable Hellos

I’ll pick-pocket in the black suites of Halloween—
I’ll look down into the great ovoid valleys where my father
Is turning his tractor for no other reason than he is
Perplexed,
...

2249.
Johnny Gets Done For

Unquiet, lasting quiet,
Even under the tallest buildings the world
Is moving and trying to get it done,
And I try to stay away from there,
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2250.
Frank O'Hara's Endless Poem

Sabotage me with scars and parking lots,
And take me outside the dirty city and down to
The dirty sea;
And why do my farts smell like my dreams for
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